I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Al Nuke is almost like a real brother to me. Our chemistry is crazy because we're like night and day, but we blend so well.

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.